Tuesday, April 30, 2013

If I Could Write the Next Die Hard Movie

So there's talk (or maybe not) of a new Die Hard movie. 

If I Could Write the Next Die Hard Movie I'd write it from the POV of the villain who’s trying to isolate and kill the pain in the ass John McClane type before he can disrupt the villain’s plan. And it would not star Bruce Willis either.* It’s called ‘Die Hard,’ not 'John McClane.' This franchise works best when the hero is an everyman, and we are long past that point with John McClane.

*UNLESS John McClane is the villain. Maybe he’s forced to take hostages/commit a crime for reasons unknown but are later revealed to be sympathetic. (Maybe his kids are held hostage and he needs to stage an assault on a Federal Reserve bank,or maybe he's pulled a Hans Gruber but his target is actually an evil multi-national corporation plotting to do some serious harm to NY/ is fronting a terrorist group.) Regardless, the world sees HIM as the villain, and to make matters worse he’s up against a resourceful off duty cop who stumbled onto the scene. McClane’s got to neutralize the cop before he ruins everything andbecause he’s John McClane, he has to do it without killing the poor cop.

OR I would just add Dwayne Johnson, come up with an excuse for them to steal a lot of cars, and call it a day. 

This has been Reason #41 Why I May Not Be Cut Out To Work in Hollywood  

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